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In reply to the discussion: Democrats delay change to convention superdelegates [View all]Hortensis
(58,785 posts)mostly lies. Surely you don't want to be like all those republicans whose belief systems are based on lies? We can't force people to respect truth, all we can do invidually is refuse to spread the lies, to not be useful idiots for our enemies.
First you need to realize that the entire planet is in an era of diffusing power away from centers. The DNC and RNC epitomize this. The are both now very weak in this era. The big decisions are all made by the kind of people who decide to put someone on the DNC for those tasks it does do, not by the DNC. It's an ancillary organization these days.
For at least 2 years before each campaign season, each candidate works independently, like a startup business, first in their own state, putting together their campaign and power base, getting on the state ballots, and expands his or her campaign across the nation, gathering power as they go. Or not. Clinton did tremendously. Sanders, as we know, was not active in most of this period.
Meanwhile, the DNC itself has virtually nothing to do with any of this. They come into play when the candidates have developed themselves into agglomerations of powers and purposes.
All the arguments that the Sanders campaign performed weakly because of the DNC are at best profound misunderstandings based on ignorance. It came in weak, performed better than expected because of real enthusiasm for the message, because the DNC took out the 9 weakest candidates before any of us knew their names but left Sanders in, because the DNC provided funds and other support, because of massive press dishonesty (puffing a second candidate up to create a horse race so they wouldn't have to report Clinton several laps ahead for a year), and because of conservative spoiler votes inflated his numbers. And then it lost -- as all indications said it would from beginning to end. Passionate hopes, wishful thinking, and the ignorance needed to support both changed nothing.